Burton Holmes Travelogues, 1914, 12 VOLUME SET. 1-12. Illustrated Antique
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Burton Holmes Travelogues, 1914, 12 VOLUME SET. 1-12. Illustrated Antique Elias Burton Holmes (January 8, 1870 – July 22, 1958) was an American traveler, photographer and filmmaker credited with the invention of the "travelogue", though the term itself was apparently coined in 1898 by John Bowker. Travel stories, slide shows, and motion pictures were all in existence before Holmes began his career, as was the profession of travel lecturer; but Holmes was the first person to put all of these elements together into documentary travel lectures. He recorded the earliest known footage of Japan and Korea, in 1899. Holmes traveled extensively: North and South America, Europe, Russia, India, Ethiopia and Burma (now Myanmar). He lectured about such topics as the Panama Canal, the "Frivolities of Paris", even the adventures of Richard Halliburton, one of his competitors in the travel lecture profession. He visited the first modern Olympics in 1896, rode the first trans-Siberian train, and shot w
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